Word Finder - cannons

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A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.

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Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

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A bone of a horse's leg, between the fetlock joint and the knee or hock.

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A cannon bit.

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A large muzzle-loading artillery piece.

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A carom.

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In English billiards, a cannon is when one's cue ball strikes the other player's cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.

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The arm of a player that can throw well.

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He's got a cannon out in right.

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A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently.

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(Chinese chess) A piece which moves horizontally and vertically like a rook but captures another piece by jumping over a different piece in the line of attack.

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To bombard with cannons.

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To play the carom billiard shot. To strike two balls with the cue ball

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The white cannoned off the red onto the pink.

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To fire something, especially spherical, rapidly.

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To collide or strike violently, especially so as to glance off or rebound.

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A generally accepted principle; a rule.

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The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

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A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

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The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

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the entire Shakespeare canon

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A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

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A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

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We must proceed according to canon law.

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A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

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In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

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A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

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A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

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Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.

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(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius

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Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.

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A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.

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A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

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a canon of beef or lamb

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A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

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A carom.

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A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.

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A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.

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A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or twice that number and two bridges.

Cannons were fired at the two stations at intervals of five minutes.

He whipped out the vamp-killing hand cannons and shot the first two of Jilian's men.

Almost all the slopes are covered by snow cannons.

Cannons were fired at half-hour intervals, alternately at Montmartre and Montlhery, 17 or 18 m.

Blast the pirates with a full broadside from your cannons to earn extra points, or lure them onto the reefs to destroy them.

The aircraft has no cannons mounted in the forward fuselage.

Service includes, pre-day music requests, disco, background music, confetti cannons, mics provided for speeches.

Ground forces are often shooting rifles, flak cannons, and missiles into the air, trying to shoot down fighters.

The Jaguar is equipped with two 30mm Aden cannons installed in gun bays in the lower center fuselage.

Demonstrating how cannons work or jousting knights or naval fighting techniques.

The ship came complete with 36 brass cannons that fired a salute to the Prince.

Air Cannon Target our air cannons at a target and push the plunger to send a spinning vortex of air across the room.

In Beirut, police clashed with some 1,000 students using water cannons to prevent them from marching on the US embassy.

One of the Polish kings, for example, threatened with death the English sailors who should attempt to carry on the illicit trade in arms, on the ground that " the Muscovite, who is not only our opponent of to-day but the eternal enemy of all free nations, should not be allowed to supply himself with cannons, bullets and munitions or with artisans who manufacture arms hitherto unknown to those barbarians."

More water cannons are arriving to protect them but the protesters have no intention of leaving their position in front of the Center.

Water squirts, surprising drips, bubbles, vibrations, and water cannons bring the action right off the screen into the 176-seat theater.

Several other large rides incorporate water features, such as the Flying Super Saturator roller coaster at Carowinds in North Carolina, where guests have the opportunity to aim geysers, sprays, and cannons at riders.

One of the world's largest interactive play areas, "Walkabout Waters," that includes small slides, a pool, water cannons, geysers, and more.

Splash around in bubbling geysers, water cannons and 1,000-gallon tipping water buckets.

Since 2009, the hotels have offered a Cannons N' Coasters Civil War History and Hershey Park vacation package.

Geologic surveys were undertaken, construction plans began, and the Citadel was established in 1850 with the fortress manned with long range cannons and guns capable of taking out hostile ships entering the bay.

Don't miss the Civil War-era cannon loading demonstration, which will show new generations how soldiers loaded and fired cannons during an artillery drill.

Some customers mentioned that the cannons and sails were difficult for younger children to work.

A knight is on board to help with the fight and shoot cannons at the enemy.

Kids get to try to explode each other's cannons by attempting to step on them without letting someone pop their own balloons.

Detailed laser cannons, Cylon markings and engine vans make this collectible fun to put together and a fine addition to display as part of your collection..

While still hidden within its cocoon, the military decided to strike with atomic cannons and the monster was created.

The fife is a shrill instrument and could be heard even above the roaring cannons.

Thus ornamental iron castings were made in Sussex in the 14th century, and in the 16th cannons weighing three tons each were cast.

The vamps around Bianca whirled, and he raised the hand cannons, blasting all four before they reached the door.

Now Issac started thinking about a cannons, now he knew that the faster you fired the cannon ball the further it went.

The resort is equipped with snow cannons ensuring skiing from early December.

Make your special day stand out with these beautiful wedding confetti cannons.

His grandfather had obtained from Venice an " artist " who undertook " to build churches and palaces, to cast big bells and cannons, to fire off the said cannons and to make every sort of castings very cunningly "; and with the aid of that clever Venetian he had become the proud possessor of a " cannon-house," subsequently dignified with the name of " arsenal."

He stayed his urge to unleash the hand cannons on them all and stood stiffly.

One desperate, frightened yell from the first French soldier who saw the Cossacks, and all who were in the camp, undressed and only just waking up, ran off in all directions, abandoning cannons, muskets, and horses.